Day 4 – Sauna Saturday!

We call Saturdays Sauna days because we spend close to 8 hours in the prayer room. We spend our first two hours of the day, from midnight to 2 AM, in the prayer room. We had a great time of intercession for healing this morning. If you enjoy watching the archives, then I definitely recommend this watch.

At 2 AM, we met together to listen to part of the message from the Encountering God service last night. We cannot attend this service because it happens while we are sleeping. But, like last night, there are often important messages that they share at this service. We take time to review these things on Saturday mornings so that we don't miss out.

This morning, we listened to the audio of Mike Bickle's interview of Aaron Walsh, one of the leaders of the Tauranga HOP in New Zealand. He shared some powerful prophetic dreams that he has had in the past year where God shared with him what He is going to bring to the church regarding finances.

• In the first dream, Jesus was a surveyor who detected a huge amount of oil under the FCF building. Aaron knew that this was the oil from Matthew 25.
  
• In the second dream, God told Aaron to pray for 1,000,000 new messengers to be added to the prayer movement in order to raise up 1,000,000,000 new converts, as well as a budget of $1 trillion to accomplish this.
  
• In the third dream, Aaron was at a meeting of the global prayer movement. God told them that a far worse shaking was coming, but that the prayer movement is not to fear. The shaking is actually for us. For 6 million years, God has held himself back from a great transfer of finances. However, He is not going to restrain Himself any longer. But, you must believe that God is good to you in His personal provision for you. God said that the war of faith and fear will be fought on the battlefield of personal finance. The way forward: God is going to release a generous spirit that dismantles fear in our hearts. He will use the economic shaking to reveal our fears regarding our personal finances. If we turn to God, He will dismantle our fears and give us faith to trust His provision and be generous with others. God wants to communicate deeply that He is our source.
  
• In the fourth dream, God told Aaron that the Mother of all fears is finance. We attack fear by moving in the opposite spirit. Instead of moving to labor in our hearts to fix the problem, we need to trust in God to provide for us.
  

I was really impacted by this message. I have a lot of fear about my personal finances so this message was very convicting for me. Dale also challenged us further by saying that anxiety comes from not understanding the love of the Father for me, not knowing where my home and safety is. I received prayer during the ministry time and repented for being anxious and not believing that God is really good to me. I asked Him to show me how much He loves me and longs to be compassionate and generous with me.

When we returned to the prayer room at 3 AM, I read through Luke 15, John 14, and Philippians 3:20, Psalms 27 and 34. I stopped and meditated on the verses that talked about the goodness of God. I asked Him to transform my thinking about His goodness, His generosity and His provision for me.

After our lunch break we returned to the prayer room from 6 AM to 10 AM. I spent some more time searching for additional verses that describe how God provides like Haggai 2:8, Psalm 154:9, 1 Peter 5:6-7, Philippians 4:19 and Ephesians 3:20-21. I have felt God's peace in a fresh way since then. I know that I will be tempted to be anxious again, but I am praying that I will run straight to Jesus the next time I start to feel that familiar pressure and fear creep into my heart and my mind.

If you are interested in hearing Aaron's word yourself, then I encourage you to visit the archives and select the Friday night, 6 PM watch. His testimony begins about 1 hour and 35 minutes into the watch.